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SEZONA 2024 | IV. abonentní koncert
SEASON 2024 | IV. subscription concert
Event by: Český národní symfonický orchestr - CNSO
Location: Obecní Dům, Náměstí Republiky 5, Praha 1
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Program
Bedřich Smetana – Valdštýn camp, symphonic poem
Gustav Mahler – Five songs based on a poem by Friedrich Rückert
Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 7
Performers
Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Jan Pellant, conductor
Filip Bandžak, baritone
200. The ČNSO will also commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Czech classicist Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) at this subscription concert. This time the symphonic poem Valdštýnův tábor will be heard. It belongs together with the compositions of Richard III. and Hakon Jarl to the trio of so-called Swedish symphonic poems, because Smetana wrote them (under the influence of Franz Liszt and his innovations in the field of program music) in Gothenburg, where he worked in the years 1856–1861. The composition Valdštýnův tábor is about capturing the atmosphere of life in a military camp in the early evening and the revelry of soldiers at night. The night is quiet and a patrol passes through the camp. The fanfare wakes up the alarm clock and the soldiers set off on their next march...
The Austrian-Czech composer and famous conductor Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) expressed himself musically only through symphonies and songs, in both genres that are intertwined in his work, he is today considered one of the greatest composers and musical visionaries of his time. Mahler composed a free cycle of Five Songs on Poems by Friedrich Rückert for voice and piano in 1901 and 1902. Almost at the same time, he worked on setting music to five more poems by Rückert, making up the cycle of Songs about Dead Children. Mahler's enchantment with Rückert's poems thus gave birth to two of the most beautiful song cycles in world literature.
Austrian composer and excellent organist Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), born in the same year as Bedřich Smetana, made his mark in music history primarily with his giant complex of symphonies, the last of which (the twelfth) remained a torso. He constantly reworked the symphonies, so they exist in different versions. At the end of his life, he even revised all his symphonies almost at once, as if they represented a single work for him. Bruckner worked on Symphony No. 7 in E major for two years (1881–1883) and was first performed on 30 December 1884 in Leipzig by the Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Arthur Nikisch. Its premiere marked the 60-year-old composer's first significant success after previous symphonies met with dismissive critics or were never performed at all. It was followed by performances in Munich, Cologne, Hamburg and Graz, and then only in Vienna, which finally paid his debt honestly after many years of adversity and unpleasant attacks on his music, which was strongly influenced by Richard Wagner.
Bedřich Smetana – Valdštýn camp, symphonic poem
Gustav Mahler – Five songs based on a poem by Friedrich Rückert
Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 7
Performers
Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Jan Pellant, conductor
Filip Bandžak, baritone
200. The ČNSO will also commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Czech classicist Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) at this subscription concert. This time the symphonic poem Valdštýnův tábor will be heard. It belongs together with the compositions of Richard III. and Hakon Jarl to the trio of so-called Swedish symphonic poems, because Smetana wrote them (under the influence of Franz Liszt and his innovations in the field of program music) in Gothenburg, where he worked in the years 1856–1861. The composition Valdštýnův tábor is about capturing the atmosphere of life in a military camp in the early evening and the revelry of soldiers at night. The night is quiet and a patrol passes through the camp. The fanfare wakes up the alarm clock and the soldiers set off on their next march...
The Austrian-Czech composer and famous conductor Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) expressed himself musically only through symphonies and songs, in both genres that are intertwined in his work, he is today considered one of the greatest composers and musical visionaries of his time. Mahler composed a free cycle of Five Songs on Poems by Friedrich Rückert for voice and piano in 1901 and 1902. Almost at the same time, he worked on setting music to five more poems by Rückert, making up the cycle of Songs about Dead Children. Mahler's enchantment with Rückert's poems thus gave birth to two of the most beautiful song cycles in world literature.
Austrian composer and excellent organist Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), born in the same year as Bedřich Smetana, made his mark in music history primarily with his giant complex of symphonies, the last of which (the twelfth) remained a torso. He constantly reworked the symphonies, so they exist in different versions. At the end of his life, he even revised all his symphonies almost at once, as if they represented a single work for him. Bruckner worked on Symphony No. 7 in E major for two years (1881–1883) and was first performed on 30 December 1884 in Leipzig by the Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Arthur Nikisch. Its premiere marked the 60-year-old composer's first significant success after previous symphonies met with dismissive critics or were never performed at all. It was followed by performances in Munich, Cologne, Hamburg and Graz, and then only in Vienna, which finally paid his debt honestly after many years of adversity and unpleasant attacks on his music, which was strongly influenced by Richard Wagner.